There were several comments to the effect that the SNL writers weren't actually inventing anything for this SNL skit, & it reminds me of how Tina Fey skewered Sarah Palin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3L7...

Alt text because adorbs 😻

Here me out, a public time machine that is designed only so people can experience awesome short lived foods they missed out on or just miss having. You can't alter the past, but you can taste it.

"O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe..." -- Langston Hughes, born #OTD 1901

TIL that Joy the Baker is MAGA. Ugh. I saved the one recipe I used from her blog (Blackberry Pie bars), & her post on how to make vanilla extract, & will avoid her henceforth

America's earliest immigration laws required 5 years of residency. Then you were a citizen (if you were whatever they considered "white" back then) I see no reason why we can't do better than that. You cross the border, declare intent to achieve citizenship, & must pass citizenship exams + 5 years.

Y'all, his AI girlfriend is a feminist and broke up with him

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

Maxwell was faced 2 separate trials re trafficking & perjury. The trafficking trial didn’t happen until late November of 2021 & she wasn’t convicted until the end of December. Perjury trial didn’t happen until 2022. She was appealing during the entire presidency. Releasing then risked freeing her.

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Why are we forced to live in a reality where there is no floor to how much Chris Cillizza can suck?

This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

Literally nobody has stalled more in the history of the Senate www.wsj.com/opinion/chuc...

See that enormous crater on Mars’s moon Phobos? It isn’t named after the man who discovered the moon. It’s named after his wife. Here’s the remarkable story of how that happened. (1/6) Image: ESA #astronomy #history

If you didn't know the writing below was by Anne Frank, you'd think it was written by some terrified individual in MN. There is not one word in her diary entry below that doesn't describe the terrorism happening in Mn and other states around the US.

YES. Private prisons violate human rights in the pursuit of profit. They routinely deny medical care, clean water, soap, and other basics, because paying for it eats into profits.

GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this. “This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”

Lake Springfield, snowed over. You can see the CWLP (City Water Light & Power, hooray for municipal utilities!) power plant across the lake to the right.

Timeline cleanse. Are these bluebirds adorable or are they adorable? (Trick question! They are, in fact, totes adorbs.)

Identity politics when it comes to minority groups? Is just a black person refusing to vote for a racist. A woman refusing to vote for a sexist. A trans person refusing to vote for a transphobe. In short? Self preservation. Meaning 3/4 of white americans were able to be convinced that...

It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

TFW you absentmindedly hit the like button on one of your own posts. 🤦🏻‍♀️ (I undid it. I do try not to be a flaming narcissist.)

“So do you have to be evil when they recruit you or do they have some sort of a training program?” - my son to a friend applying to Palantir

Useful URL alert! Many thanks, Luna ❤️

"British people think 100 miles is a long way and Americans think 100 years is a long time ago" is one of those moments where Bryson is glib but not wrong: I know it was very unevenly distributed in the US but if you are British you don't see the 1850s as impossibly distant, it's a 20-mile drive.

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

In their defense they had never seen a warrant signed by a real judge, so they were not familiar with it.

Currently shivering in Fuck It's Cold central Illinois & thankful that at least it's 8° warmer than Minneapolis. In a few months, I'll be sweating in Fuck It's Hot & praising Willis Carrier's name.

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

First they came for Bovino, and I said nothing… because I also want them to come for Kash, Noem, Lewandowski, and Miller.

Reminds me of UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike casually pepper spraying a group of seated Occupy protestors in 2011.

I made a snarky comment in the alt text of the quoted image [Henry Pelham's drawing of the Boston Massacre] about Crispus Attucks being missing & went Wikipedia diving. Crispus Attucks, a Black/Native American whaler, is tagged as being the 1st person killed in the American Revolution.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Found out today that the CBP killers who murdered innocent non-violent People in Minnesota have been working for CPB for 8 and 10 years. This makes me suspicious about how many immigrants they have murdered. Murdering People came way too easy for them. They did it quickly and with 100% accuracy.

FWIW, I think it’s important to distinguish two claims: (1) All we need to do is to give ICE/CBP officers better training (clearly false), and (2) It’s worth noting that many of them are badly trained, in part because that makes it much more likely that people will be harmed (true, imho.)

I would like to see a bit of dialing down to see who the respondents consider to be Americans

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Prisons for profit should not be legal. They're an obscenity.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Not only is it morally repugnant for the White House to use AI to make Nekiva Levy Armstrong appear to be crying— it also appears to be illegal In case anything still matters

Yeppers. theonion.com/gop-adds-ice...

News outlets need not wait for anyone — especially the government — to tell us it's raining. If it's raining, go outside, report the damn rain. Describe the rain to your audience. Say with confidence, "It's raining. It's raining hard. I hear thunder. I see lightening. It is raining."

These articles have a place if they’re “wow was I wrong, here’s the ways I was wrong and the failure modes I engaged in, and I’m sorry”. They don’t work if they are “everyone was hysterical for now reason, but now I deem it fascism, it’s time to get worried, you’re welcome”.

Yes, it's fascism, but I will never ever admit those Dirty Fucking Hippies were right.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

no, the ACA is not dead, are you kidding? tell me you don't know anything about pre-existing conditions without telling me you don't know anything about pre-existing conditions.

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...